唐紅

唐紅

Japanese

FWOTD – 13 May 2020

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
唐	紅
から Grade: S	くれない Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
韓紅

From 唐 (Kara, “(Tang dynasty) China”) +‎ 紅 (kurenai, “crimson”); contrasted with the alternative spelling 韓紅 (literally “Korean crimson”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) からくれ​ない [kàrákúréꜜnàì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
• (Tokyo) からくれな​い [kàrákúrénáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾa̠kɯ̟ᵝɾe̞na̠i]

Noun

唐(から)紅(くれない) • (Kara-kurenai) ^{←からくれなゐ (karakurenawi)?}

1. Chinese red; deep crimson
   • 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 5, poem 294; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 17)

     千(ち)早(はや)ぶる神(かみ)世(よ)もきかず竜(たつ)田(た)川(がは)からくれなゐに水(みづ)くくるとは

     chihayaburu kamiyo mo kikazu Tatsuta-gawa Kara-kurenai ni mizu kukuru to wa

     I have not heard that, e'en in the age of the Mighty Gods the rivers draped in vivid (literally Chinese) red as is that of Tatsuta.[2]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.
2. a Kara-kurenai-colored thread or cloth
3. Synonym of 寒紅梅 (kankōbai): an ume cultivar, Prunus mume var. mume f. alphandii
4. a 伽羅 (kyara)-class of incense

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.

Idioms

• 唐(から)紅(くれない)の涙(なみだ) (Kara-kurenai no namida)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
唐	紅
とう Grade: S	べに Grade: 6
jūbakoyomi

From 唐 (Tō, “(Tang dynasty) China → foreign”) +‎ 紅 (beni, “crimson”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とーべに [tòóbéní] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ːbe̞ɲ̟i]

Noun

唐(とう)紅(べに) • (tōbeni) ^{←たうべに (taubeni)?}

1. Synonym of フクシン (fukushin): fuchsine

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. Joseph Henry Longford (1919) Japan of the Japanese, C. Scribner's sons, original from the University of Michigan, page 160